From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
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Precomposing to group layers - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
Precomposing to group layers
- [Instructor] In the next couple of chapters, I'll show you how to use the Pre-compose option. If you have the exercise files go ahead and open the Pre-compose 1 Move project. In the next chapter, we'll use the second project called Pre-compose Leave. When you open the project it's very simple. There's only one composition called Wired Fruit. I'll open that, and inside this composition there are five layers. The top layer is a 3-D animation of a wire frame apple, and layers two and three are a title layer and a subtitle, and in the background we have two movies that are blended together. If I select the top three layers and press e for Effects. You can see that I have the Drop Shadow effect applied to all three layers. Of course, because I have three different Drop Shadow effects, every time I update Drop Shadow on the apple, I have to make sure I copy and paste the same settings to the other two layers, so it might not be the most efficient way of working, but it does allow me to…
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